Maxine Waters May Run House Financial Services Committee After Dem Win

House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., pauses as she questions witnesses during a hearing on legal issues relating to football head injuries, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Rep. Maxine Water will most likely become the chair of the House’s Financial Services Committee following the Democrats’ victory in the midterm elections on Tuesday, according to CNBC. Waters, who’s been a vocal critic of Wall Street and President Donald Trump, is currently the top Democrat on the banking panel.

The congresswoman has asked for more regulation of the nation’s top banks, which put her in direct opposition of Trump and Republicans who favor deregulation. In July, she proposed that financial institutions that violated the law could face fines.

Analysts don’t believe that Waters, who has the power to hold hearings involving banks, will get far since Republicans still control the Senate. They believe she is “creating negative perceptions and market worries for parts of the financial industry” and have expressed worry that she will subpoena banking documents.

Director Ava DuVernay tweeted Trump on Wednesday, who called the midterm elections a “tremendous success,” that he will be held accountable now that Democrats have regained control of the House.

The 14-term House member has also sparred openly with Trump, who has routinely questioned her intelligence and sanity.

“Congresswoman Maxine Waters, an extraordinarily low IQ person, has become, together with Nancy Pelosi, the Face of the Democrat Party,” he wrote in August.

Congresswoman Maxine Waters, an extraordinarily low IQ person, has become, together with Nancy Pelosi, the Face of the Democrat Party. She has just called for harm to supporters, of which there are many, of the Make America Great Again movement. Be careful what you wish for Max!

“I don’t care what he calls me. I know who I am. I know what I do,” Waters said in July. “I am perfectly comfortable with me. He can call me whatever he wants to, he does not intimidate me, and I am not going to stop talking about him.”

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